Tizonia music player for terminal

Tizonia is a music player which can play locally stored music files and not only that but that also allows you listen your music streaming platforms favorites.

Spotify premium, Google Play Music and Soundcloud are the most prominent streaming services that we can use in Tizonia, in addition to the player allows us the possibility of creating a local music service so that all devices connected to our network can access our repertoire.

The player comes with its own OpenMAX-based multimedia framework, which is independent of those known in Linux, such as ffmpeg, libav, gstreamer or libvlc. OpenMAX is a cross-platform, royalty-free API that provides comprehensive streaming media codec.

Within the functions we find:

• The player is available for Debian and Rasberry Pi
• It gives us the ability to play local multimedia files
• The player comes with radio integration: SHOUTcast / Icecast
• Sound Cloud integration
• Spotify integration
• Google Music integration
• Remote control support using MPRISv2

In the case of Google Music and Spotify, to use the player it is necessary to have a Premium account Since it does not have support for free accounts, in the case of Sound Cloud we can use the free version without problems.

Although the application does not have a user interface, it is an excellent tool when it comes to saving resources, in addition to the fact that most users love using the terminal.

How to install Tizonia on Ubuntu?

Application We can install it not only in Ubuntu but also in derived distributions of it and also in Debian and its derivatives.

We need to do the following configuration, before proceeding with the installation:

mkdir -p $HOME/.config/tizonia $ cp /etc/tizonia/tizonia.conf $HOME/.config/tizonia/tizonia.conf

To do this we must download its installer with the following command:

curl -kL https://github.com/tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il/raw/master/tools/install.sh | bash

The application is designed up to version 16.04 so its installation in later versions I have not tested for the moment. If you want to know more about her, I'll leave you the link of your git.

How to install Tizonia on Arch Linux?

In the case of Arch Linux distributions and its derivatives we install it with:

yaourt -S tizonia-all

Without further ado, the only thing I can say is that it is worth giving this player a chance and knowing all the potential it has hidden.